DTN Daily Diatribe | Texas Tech News, Notes and Links | 2011-06-06
by Seth C on Jun 6, 2011 6:09 AM CDT
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FOOTBALL
Marquez heads to Lubbock with plenty of options | marquez, lubbock, school - OAVarsity.com
Really good stuff about incoming freshman Bradley Marquez and his decision to play both football and baseball for Texas Tech, so long as he doesn't get drafted and signs with an MLB team over the next two days. Marquez apparently still intends on playing football for Texas Tech. Go read the whole thing.
List of the players who have extra-large cleats to fill - Sports | The Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia, Missouri
Matter runs through the list of players who have the biggest cleats to fill and QB Seth Doege makes the list:
8. Seth Doege, QB, Texas Tech: It took half the 2010 season for Taylor Potts to convince Texas Tech coaches and fans that he was their best quarterback. By season’s end, his numbers were as good as any QB in the conference. The Red Raiders won eight games, but there were few quarterbacks less appreciated despite standout numbers than Potts. He completed 67 percent of his throws, threw for 3,726 yards, 35 touchdowns and only nine interceptions.
Doege, a redshirt junior, started one game in 2009 and is the top candidate to replace Potts, though sophomore Jacob Karam could take over if Doege gets an early hook. Knee injuries wiped out Doege’s junior and senior seasons of high school, meaning he’s started just one game over the last five seasons.
As an aside, Matter is one of my favorite writes around the Big 12 because I do think he tries to learn about each team in the conference.
Phil Steele | % of Yards Returning and Phil Steele | Career OL Starts Returning and % of Lettermen Returning
A couple of Steele links and Texas Tech is #109 in the first link, which is what happens when you lose your two best receivers and starting running back, while Texas Tech is #33 on the second link, which I think bodes well this team.
Tech-Baylor Set For 2:30 p.m. CT Kickoff On Nov. 26 - TEXAS TECH OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE
You can now plan your schedules to attend Jerry's World.
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Gillispie, Jasper complete strange journey to Texas Tech - NCAA Division I Mens Basketball - CBSSports.com
Another story (here's DTN's version) of new graduate assistant, Derrick Jasper.
BASEBALL
Tech team’s exclusion from postseason painful, but motivational | Red Raiders
Few draftable players should keep Red Raiders intact | Lubbock Online | Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
I don't like writing this, but if Dan Spencer doesn't make the NCAA Tournament next year, he might not be the head coach after that. I don't like writing that, but I'm afraid that next year is the year that Spencer needs to make it happen.
MISCELLANEOUS
Quest for the Story Leads Alumnus to Evening News Job :: Texas Tech Today
I know that I've called new CBS evening news anchor, Scott Pelley, a Texas Tech alum, and from what I can tell, Pelley didn't actually graduate from Texas Tech, nor any other college, but he did attend Texas Tech from 1975 through 1978 and before graduating, he was offered a job in Dallas. So there you go. The question remains, if you attend Texas Tech, but never graduate, are you considered to be alumni?
"Images from MU football's Joplin visit" - Behind the Stripes - ColumbiaTribune.com
The Missouri football team and I think basketball team spent one day last week helping with the devastation in Joplin, Missouri.
Top Ten List: Shaquille O’Neal " MarkMadsen.com
Some fun stories from a former teammate of Shaq.
CANOE -- SLAM! Sports - CFL - Winnipeg: Bombers O-lineman starting from scratch
Former Red Raider, Glenn January, attempts to comeback with Winnipeg from a pretty serious injury.
College Coaches, Drinking, And The Two Men At The Rail - SBNation.com
This dove-tails into the innuendos of Holgorsen drinking too much, an excellent read from SBN's Spencer Hall.
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"alumni"
Definition: a graduate or former student of a specific school, college, or university.
Derived from the latin word for pupil.
I got picked up early for dental school, and therefore, I didn’t graduate from Tech. I still consider myself an alumnus. Excelling at Tech sometimes actually prevents graduation. Guns up!
Another note
Via twitter Former Red Raider Brandon Carter said if lock out doesn’t end soon he is trying out for the WWE. I could just see him in face paint now!
"A job well done is better than a job well said."
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"A job well done is better than a job well said."
by I bleed Red and Black on Jun 6, 2011 8:09 AM CDT up reply actions
If you attended Texas Tech, but never graduated
you are considered “an undergraduate”. I spent most of my 20’s in that state. Then a couple weeks before my 29th birthday I finally graduated & became an alumnus. Scott Pelly needs to die before losing the right to call himself “an undergraduate a few credits shy of graduating”.
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
Let's rethink this:
Scott Pelley is a man who achieved a level of success in his chosen profession at the “elete” level. I have no idea how the Alumni Association defines “alumni,” but if they exclude men like Scott Pelley they are very foolish. He is an alumnus of Texas Tech. He did not graduate because he had an early opportunity to pursue his career as a result of his success at Tech and his hard work and talent. The fact that his opportunity came prior to graduation is a reflection of his exceptional ability and performance. Like most words, the word alumni has multiple meanings (check any dictionary). We will be wise if we embrace the wider meaning so as to include men like Scott Pelley. I fully embrace all those who struggled to barely graduate as well as those who excelled at a level so high that they leaped over a bachelors degree to higher levels of accomplishment.
Guns up, Scott and all those other over-achieving Red Raiders.
I worked with an orthopedic surgeon in Denton who never got his bachelor’s degree. That’s right…in the 70s and 80s, it was not uncommon for med students to get into med school w/out a BA/BS. He did three years at the Univ of Kansas and was then accepted to med school at UAB (which has a surprisingly high rating for med schools).
Technically, you still don’t need an undergrad degree. If you review the requirements for many med schools, a BA/BS is not listed. But you have zero chance of getting in if you don’t these days.
My nephew just got accpeted to University of Arizona Medical School right before graduation;
He sent me a copy of the accepted email. It specifically states that not only must he graduate, but he still had to maintain his curent GPA. Which means, not only did he have to graduate, but he had to complete his classes with honors. Can’t speak for all med schools, but this is the most current and accurate account that I can reference.
By the way, James Wesly just spent the weekend with us. Wha a great kid. And, we are really proud of him. I am trying really hard to get him to be a heart doctor, so he can take care of me later, but he want to go into Pediatrics.
"I feel sorry for the guys," Tech head coach Tommy Tuberville said. "They fought hard tonight. We didn't look good on offense or defense at times, and at times we looked pretty good. It's just, I don't know. Weird game.
By the way, this was meant to be funny. It wasn't a comment on Pelly at all
It was a joke about how long many of took to finally graduate back in the 70’s and 80’s when half the people I knew were on the “Tech in a Decade” degree plan. If somebody attended Tech & considers himself an alum, he’s an alum.
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
This is why the Aggies
have an “Association of Former Students”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Association_of_Former_Students
I am a former student
As a result of needing a job I had to move to Austin and therefore did not finish up my schooling (I refused to go to UT). I do consider myself an alum, abeit a no-graduate one, but an alum nonetheless. I grew up in Lubbock and Tech has always been “my” school, win, lose or draw, from E.J. to the present. When a person achieves great things in life, whether he/she graduates from Tech or not (Re: Scott Pelley) I think that person deserves to list Tech as the alma mater, if so inclined. GO TECH!
TTpilk
"Never, never, never give up." Winston Churchill
Marquez: He expects to play some running back and receiver for the Red Raiders. "With the recruiting class coming in, it’s been a lot of fun drawing up formations," he said. "I’ll play in different positions, maybe even defense. I just want to be able to play and contribute early."
What a great situation to have for both Bradley M and TTU. Add the potential in baseball and this guy is pretty special.
To all Alums, Alumni, and Alumnus, if you matriculated TTU, you qualify. It does not matter what an association may delare for their membership, they cannot define who you are. Even if you are not a matriculate, you can be a Tee Shirt Fan and receive honor and respect for that because this is the Raider Nation…you can be an alum of the Tee Shirt World of Fandom…and importantly you can be a member of DTN Where pirates, gamblers and others of ill repute are welcome. All with Coach Holgorsen and I in drinking to that say “I.”
Living large in Texas...Texas forever.
If you actually attended....
Classes @ TTU Ithink you can call yourself an alum….I just hat all the Walmart T-shirt fans of ut & atm that never attended a day of school….I graduated from TTU in 1981 but I have been a fan since 1961…wreck’Em Tech
Drinking
That was a great article, as drinking has become one of the many great things that are somewhat now politically incorrect, along with smoking, fast food, beef, guns, hookers, and then we end up with a country that has a major chain coffee shop on evey corner because caffine seems to be the last bastion.
But really, I see these type of overhyped stores more fed by conference foes than anything. If Bob Stoops caught Mack Brown in a DWI, im sure he would get his media machine kicked up behind the scenes
Hey Tubs this is the Wild West, Good guys wear white, were the Red Raiders we wear BLACK. ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Dont buy the Espn/Disney/ABC hype ! Playoffs are just spin to hide their agenda of owning our favorite sport.
IMO ... Pelley is an alum ....
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I consider Scott Pelley an alumnus of Texas Tech. He went to classes for three years and then never attended another college or university.
IMO, he earned his degree or the right to be deemed an alumnus of TTU, with actual hands-on-experience in the real world.
I suspect that an honorary degree will be issued to him in the next few years.
At the May graduation, Hance used Pelley as an example to the graduates as a Tech Alum that had done great things because the world told him he couldn’t. Hance talked about a number of alum that did a lot with very little, The Tech way .
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I think the Holgorsen incident was an isolated event. I have had a number of family members die as the result of alcoholism and so I hope that Holgorsen does not have an alcohol problem.
As the contributor, Spencer Hall, stated:
"The evidence says that he is a coach who drinks from time to time, and this is not an uncommon thing. Coaches are people, and for the better part of human civilization people have found one way or another to get drunk for reasons that remain a mystery."
I hope Holgorsen does well at West Virginia and leads the Mountaineers to many championships in the Big East.
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My prayers go out to the people in Joplin, MO
There are two videos that bring this disaster into perspective.
The first video is mainly dark but it gives you the feeling of what it was like to be in the eye of that storm.
"First Person video of Joplin MO tornado 5/22/11"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQnvxJZucds
"Video after the tornado"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-P4P68YyNM
Both of the videos gave me chills.
It is amazing any of those people survived.
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NUTS - Never Underestimate TEAM Strength
There is something with the Holgorsen story that is beginning to smell....
Living large in Texas...Texas forever.
You mean ...
Holgorsen has a problem (drinking, anger mgmt, etc) ???
or
There is a conspiracy to not let him take the HC reins in 2012 ???
NUTS - Never Underestimate TEAM Strength
Pelley is an alum...
I work for the Office of Annual Giving on campus at Tech, where we call alumni to raise money for scholarships and academic funds for the colleges and departments. I’ve probably even called some of you in the past. An alumnus is someone who attended Tech at any point, even if it was just for a semester. We call all alumni and once in a while we do get someone who only attended Tech for one semester and transferred after, but by definition they are still an alum and are on our calling list.
Pelley is a Tech alum as Cronkite was embraced by UT
Despite dropping out of UT in 1935, Cronkite was embraced by UT – loved his voice over for the UT commercials, but freaking hated them because they were pumping up UT….Just found out this bit of trivia….While Cronkite was at UT he was in a play with Eli Wallach and Ann Sheridan, talk about crossing paths!
Pelley is a TTU alum, no doubt about it. Hell the man still wears Double T cowboy boots?!?!? Tech would be crazy to shun him – plum foolish.
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